Just days after the conservative states of Utah and West Virginia began considering allowing state residents to access medical marijuana, a Texas lawmaker announced plans to decriminalize cannabis in the Lone Star state. “I don’t believe that when God made marijuana he made a mistake that government needs to fix,” wrote state Rep. David Simpson, […] More »

The federal government is going to give $275,000 of taxpayer money to researchers to create ‘virtual pot dens’ and then plug kids into them using the hot, new Oculus Rift VR technology. University of Alabama reports today that it will begin virtual reality “focus groups” this month to “help us get a better idea for […] More »

A new Monitoring the Future survey of high school students shows that opinions on marijuana are steadily changing among American youth. According to the MTF survey, only 39.5% of high school seniors view regular marijuana use as harmful, down from 44.1% just last year. These changing attitudes coincide with rising rates of marijuana use among […] More »

A new study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (FSM) that used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to analyze the brains of 67 former marijuana users revealed that chronic marijuana use was associated with poor growth in the brain’s deep subcortical gray matter; a region linked with memories. The participants had started using marijuana when […] More »

A study conducted by researchers at UC San Diego to be published in the April issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research finds that teens who drink get brain damage, while teens who smoke do not. Researchers think this may be because alcohol’s active ingredient, ethanol, is a known neurotoxin, while cannabis has […] More »

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